Mary Lou Jepsen
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Design accolades for One Laptop Per Child - International Herald Tribune...and hopes to sell it for $75 in 2010. OLPC's former chief technology officer, Mary Lou Jepsen, intends to sell the laptops she's now developing for her start-up company, Pixel Qi, for $75, too. OLPC's critics may scoff at its ambition... In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Mary Lou Jepsen, Intel, International Herald Tribune, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Iphone, IPod, and Dell |
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
Nicholas Negroponte
...Laptop Per Child (OLPC) although he retains his appointment as professor at MIT. Mary Lou Jepsen, Alan Kay and Nicholas Negroponte unveil the $100 laptop. In November 2005, at the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunis,...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wired, Velti, Being Digital, Dow Jones & Company, New York City, World Summit, and Choate Rosemary Hall
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | August 26, 2008
Secret Origin of the OLPC: Genius, Hubris and the Birth of the Netbook [Olpc]
...had never before designed a laptop. In 2005, Negroponte named her CTO and charged her with developing the screen-a new kind of LCD-around which the processor, keyboard, memory and network would wrap. At that same time, Negroponte hunted...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Quanta, MIT, Inventec, Taipei Times, and AMD
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Valleywag | July 30, 2008
Mary Lou Jepsen's eye patch proves more popular than many of Negroponte's ideas [One Laptop Per Child]
Mary Lou Jepsen's eye patch proves more popular than many of Negroponte's ideas [One Laptop Per Child] Arrrrrrrrr! Readers who watched computer-display innovator Mary Lou Jepsen yesterday had only one question: WTF with the eye patch. I...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, MIT, San Francisco, Massachusetts, and Peru
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Wikipedia | October 01, 2009
Mary Lou Jepsen
...entire first year of the effort was the only employee of One Laptop per Child OLP. By the end of 2005, she had completed the initial architecture, led the development of the first prototype (which UN Secretary General Kofi Annan unveiled...
In this article: Laptop, UN, Diffraction, Time Magazine, Monitor Group, Nicholas Negroponte, and Intel
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CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries | February 27, 2009
The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time
...was just trying to create a supercheap laptop. In 2005, Jepsen, a pioneering LCD screen designer, was tapped to lead the development of the machine that would become known as One Laptop per Child. Nicholas Negroponte, the longtime MIT Media...
In this article: Laptop, Trademark, Nicholas Negroponte, Milky Way galaxy, and USA
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Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories | October 06, 2008
Technology Review: Simplified Displays
...company, Pixel Qi. Credit: Pixel Qi In 2005, Mary Lou Jepsen joined Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT's Media Lab, to build a $100 laptop for each of the poorest children of the world. As CTO of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC)...
In this article: Technology Review, Laptop, Intel, Women in computing, MIT, and Nicholas Negroponte
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
OLPC XO-1
...space for new keys such as a future "view source" key. Beneath the keyboard was a large area that resembled a very wide touchpad that Jepsen referred to as the "mousepad". The central third was a capacitive sensor that could be used...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Sugar, Fedora, OLPC XO-1, Xfce, NiMH battery, SimCity, Microsoft Windows, and DVD
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Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories | May 20, 2008
Technology Review: $100 Laptop Gets Redesigned
...use Windows software in schools. Pixel Qi, the display-technology startup founded by former OLPC chief technology officer Mary Lou Jepsen, will collaborate in the development of the new computer. Its smaller size will make the laptops...
In this article: Laptop, Nicholas Negroponte, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Proprietary software, Technology Review, GNU, Sugar, and MIT
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Mary Lou Jepsen (born 1965) was the founding chief technology officer of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), an organization whose mission is to deliver low-cost, mesh-networked laptops en masse to children in developing countries. For her work in creating the laptop Time Magazine named her to its 2008 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Jepsen is married to John Conor Ryan, formerly a partner at Monitor Group, who has recently joined Pixel Qi.
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